Below the Radar... Crazy
 

I'm pretty sure some of these guys came home with twigs stuck in the control surfaces!

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Great video. Thanks. Flying a fighter jet is a fantasy of mine.

Very Cool, Great Video!

And you are aware that those are French pilots? ;)

Crazy stuff! All it takes is one moment of inattention at those altitudes/speeds and you'd never even know what happened...

I imagine ground effect helps a little with getting TOO low, but still, I think of anything below about 500' as "too low". :)

Love the spot at 00:30 where hes looking at a chart.:eek:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=4hYzH3seLnU

More crazy French. 2:08 Pilot has to climb to avoid hitting a truck on the road. Makes me laugh.

POP,

Actually a few have survived ground strikes but they are rare. I also know of a few barb wire strikes (Hornet barb wire across the starboard intake and a Herk scraped off a piss tube in back.).

One of the problems with being low enough to have ground effect help push you up is that you are low enough to drag a wing in a turn on level ground, thus requiring a climb to turn.

Try those altitudes at night on goggles, stuff flying about. That is a bit sportier.

S/F, FOG

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